The next time you want to sit on the pity pot and complain about what a sucky job this is, go read this article in the 2016 issue of Time Magazine:
http://time.com/magazine/us/4547305/november-7th-2016-vol-188-no-19-u-s/
Then go into your classroom and at least try to get a story going doing whatever works for you. We have work to do and we aren’t going to get it done without a few boring stories and bumps in the road happening along the way.